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ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES 



UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 

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ADDRESS OF THE TRUSTEES 

OP THE 

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANii 

TO THE PUBLIC. 



The Trustees of the University of Maryland, about to sub- 
mit to the public a scheme of education, by which they hope to 
secure at home all the advantages which have been hitherto 
sought abroad, present the following exposition of their views, 
and of the system of instruction and discipline, adopted by 
them for the contemplated collegiate department of that insti- 
tution. Other states in the Union have long since established, 
and continue to foster with a vigilant solicitude, their colleges 
and Universities; and in doing so, while they have cherished 
among their own citizens, that local attachment which binds a 
man to the soil, the institutions and the principles of the place in 
which his character is formed, our own youth, whose primary ob- 
ject at these colleges is the pursuit of science, must attain it at best, 
at the expense and sacrifice of similar honorable feelings and princi- 
ples. It is indeed a matter of surprise, that with the means, the 
facilities and inducements within our own state, a subject which 
appeals so directly to the interest and feelings of every parent, 
should so long have remained undisturbed. Thousands in our 
own large metropolis, stand in that imposing relation of parent 
or protector, to the generation on whom it hereafter will devolve, 
to sustain the institutions and liberties of our country. Educated 
they must be. Education is to form their characters, and fix the 
principles, on which depend the future destinies of our country. 
The citizens of Maryland have not been insensible to this truth. 
The several academies already in operation in our city and through- 
out the state, afford in an ample degree the ordinary scholastic in- 
struction; — nor have the mechanical portion of our citizens been 
indifferent to acquirements, in those branches of science which 



more immediately apply to the literature of the mechanic arts. 
The legislature of the state has been liberal and unceasing in 
its efforts to diffuse the blessings of education through every 
constituent portion of society, and has freely dispensed its fos- 
tering protection and bounty to all. The Faculties of Medi- 
cine and ofLaw^ in connexion with this University, have been in 
active and useful operation for some years past; and heretofore, 
the funds dedicated by the enlightened spirit of the State, have 
been chiefly applied to those faculties. But the views of the state 
extended beyond these departments. — As early as 1812, that 
branch of the University, to the organization of which the trustees 
now invite the attention, and invoke the co-operation of the pub- 
lic, was embodied in it, and funds appropriated for its early and 
efficient organization; but, from causes now not necessary to be 
adverted to, it has remained from that period a dead letter upon 
the statute book, while other colleges and academies throughout 
the state have attempted to supply its place, by combining the 
characters of school and college, and granting collegiate honors 
and degrees. 

It is intended as no disparagement to these useful institutions 
which have so ably sustained themselves, to say, that the young 
men of our state, who have been able to procure a liberal edu- 
cation, have mostly sought it in remote states, distant from pa- 
rental guardianship, and at an augmented expense. The num- 
ber of these would be alone sufficient, to maintain an institution 
on the most enlarged scale of usefulness and respectability, and 
evidences the necessity for the proposed organization of a de- 
partment in the University of Maryland, exclusively collegiate in 
its system^ requiring an advanced state of classical and scien- 
tific attainments^ for admission to its lectures, calculated to 
conduct its pupils through the highest branches of a liberal edu- 
cation, and to afford them advantages, similar to what may be 
obtained in the distant Universities of this country and Europe. 

It is by providing means for the gradual advancement of all, 
from the humblest rudiments to the highest attainments of know- 
ledge, that we co-operate with the spirit of the times, and profit 
by the occasion of becoming more enlightened, with every suc- 
ceeding generation. That literary institutions may attain this. 



their full effect: in elevating the public character, in giving a 
tone to public morals, and refining the taste of a whole commu- 
nity, they should be attainable cheaply, and at home; — not de- 
signed exclusively for the opulent, they should be within the 
reach of young persons whose parents are either unable or un- 
willing to place their offspring from under their own roof; and 
they should concentrate, within no very extended district, those 
affections, which are always strong towards the place and the 
companions of a man's education. 

The trustees of this University have never been unmindful 
of these facts, while they were waiting the most auspicious 
time to make this appeal to the public; and they now believe, at 
least they venture to hope, that the exertions heretofore made, 
and now making in our sister states to secure these blessings 
within their own boundaries, offer a favorable occasion for the 
attempt to rouse our local feelings to the same proper tone; 
and in following the example, they at least calculate upon the 
support and countenance of our own citizens; so as not to be 
left in a degraded dependence upon neighbors, for our habits of 
thinking, our principles of action, and the tone and complexion 
of our characters. The effort is not beneath the ambition of 
any state in the Union to aspire to a high place in philosophy, 
taste and learning; to furnish her proportion of statesmen and 
sages to be called to the administration and preservation of this 
great commonwealth, who will have imbibed their morals, philo- 
sophy, politics and principles in an institution purely and local- 
ly her own. 

It is undeniable, that in the city of Baltimore a thorough 
and critical knowledge of the languages and the elementary 
branches of science is as well taught and acquired as elsewhere. 
This is conced-ed to us by all the institutions abroad, to which 
our youth resort; and in the project, and the execution of the 
scheme now submitted, the trustees of the University are pledg- 
ed, that none of these advantages shall be lost to their students, 
while the higher branches of study and education have been 
classified and distributed with a view to a more enlarged and 
extended course, than is any where else pursued in this country. 
To the consideration and adoption of this scheme of education, 



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the trustees have devoted mature reflection, and their best judg- 
ment. They have committed it to professors of decided ability 
and fidelity. They have given it their confidence, and they de- 
sire to win for it, the confidence of the public. If thus, the 
growing taste for foreign schools cannot be checked, its advo- 
cates will at least be left without an excuse for indulging it. 

It is almost needless to observe, that in an institution which 
proposes for its object the culture of the moral proprieties, as 
well as the intellectual advancement of the student, much essen- 
tially depends, upon the .internal government and system of dis- 
cipline, adopted for that end. It is freely admitted to be the 
most material part, in the construction and economy of an Uni- 
' versity; and the rules established for this department, will shew 
that the trustees have treated the subject, v»^ith all that interest 
and solicitude that it merits. 

It will be the care and study of professors and teachers, 
through all the collegiate courses, while zealous for the dif- 
fusion of knowledge, to impress notions of order, decency and 
good manners; to form those habits of industry and attention, by 
which youth are secured from idleness and consequent depravity; 
to inculcate an enlightened and well -principled moral sentiment, 
and inspire that purity and refinement of taste, which is so im- 
portant to form and adorn the moral character. It will be a pri- 
mary object, to elevate the student not less as a moral than as 
an intellectual being, by inspiring the principles of virtue at an 
early age, and exciting a sense of character, and manly deport- 
ment; — to check the follies and vicious extravagancies of youth, 
by holding out the severest academical censures, and the de- 
nunciations of religion, against dissipation and immorality. Moral 
and intellectual elevation of character, is the great object sought 
to be attained. On these we confidently rest our scheme, as the 
basis on which are founded the surest expectations of the dura- 
tion of our system of societ}^, and an unwavering attachment to 
the principles, on which our political fabric is erected. 

The trustees conceive it no small advantage that such an in- 
stitution can safely be located within the city of Baltimore 
where convenient accommodations and buildings are at hand, to 
justify them in immediately entering upon the execution of the 



plan herewith submitted. Besides the public libraries, and other 
collections in science and the arts, to which the students will 
have access, the chemical and philosophical apparatus of the 
University, by recent additions from Europe, selected under the 
eye of a learned professor in the institution, may safely be pro- 
nounced unequalled in this country. With these advantages 
for teaching and illustrating science and the arts, each branch 
under a separate professor, thoroughly versed in the department 
belonging to him, the trustees confidently look for the support 
of the public, and the continued aid of the legislature, so con- 
spicuously manifested, in their repeated and noble efforts to en- 
courage and enlarge their plans of education, to meet the grow- 
ing and increasing wants of our population. 

In addition to the usual classical and mathematical studies of 
the freshman class, as laid down in this course, the students will 
receive instruction in the elements of rhetoric, logic, and com- 
position. 

The sophomore and junior classes attend the lectures of the 
professors of belles-lettres and moral philosophy, and the junior 
class attends also the lectures of the professors of chemistry, 
botany, and history. 

The senior class attends the lectures of the professors of 
mineralogy and geology, history, moral and intellectual philoso- 
phy, natural history, natural philosophy and political economy. 

Teachers of approved reputation in the French^ Spanish and 
German languages are attached to the institution; and the ad- 
ditional facility which the city of Baltimore affords for attaining 
the ornamental branches of education, leaves nothing more to 
be desired, in presenting the claims of this institution, to the 
confidence of the public. 

For the convenience of young gentlemen (in either the aca- 
demical or collegiate department) whose parents are not resi- 
dents of Baltimore^ arrangements will be made by the Faculty 
to accommodate them on reasonable terms^ and with equal re- 
gard to their comfort.^ arid moral and intellectual improvement. 

It is through the medium of such an institution, that a tone 
of elevated moral and political sentiment is to be impressed 
upon the opinions and feelings of the mass of our citizens. It 



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is to be the means at the same time, of uniting in one commu- 
nity all our own students and fellow-labourers in the cause of 
science, politics and the arts, that are otherwise destined, to con- 
tinue scattered and distributed through the different establish- 
ments, which other states are dedicating to the cause of science 
and virtue, and fostering to their own immortal honor. What 
better can we do to entitle us to the respect and gratitude of our 
posterity? A college of arts and sciences can, and ought to be 
supported by its domestic resources; by that portion of youth, 
which in every population of 80,000 has leisure and ability, for 
the most extensive literary and scientific pursuits. Independent 
of this, the scheme submitted is one intended to be general in 
its objects, and in the benefits it is expected to diffuse. Much 
of it, it will be seen, is designed to be imparted through the po- 
pular plan of lectures, from which every portion of the commu- 
nity, either sex, and every age, may derive advantage and instruc- 
tion at a moderate expense; — and thus an appeal is made to all 
classes, who feel an interest in the dignity, welfare and future 
destiny of our parent state. Maryland is not devoid of the 
wealth, the talents, nor the literary emulation necessary to the 
•support of a liberal and dignified University. We appeal to the 
patriotism^ the piety^ the parental solicitude^ and the literary 
pride and zeal of the people of Maryland; and confidently so- 
licit their co-operation in sustaining our University* 



Trustees. 

G0VERN0R0FMARYLAND,Pre.9. J. P. K. HeNSHAW, 

Nath. Williams, Vice-Pres. William Frick, 

John C. Herbert, Isaac McKim, 

Benedict I. Semmes, William H. Marriott, 

James Thomas, Solomon Etting, 

EzEKiEL F. Chambers, James W. McCulloh, 

Thomas B. Dorset, James Cox, / 

Stevenson Archer, William Gwynn, 

John Nelson, Richard B. Magruder, 

Dennis Claude, Henry V. Somerville, 

Henry Wilkins, James H. McCulloh, Jr. 
October I, 18 SO. L. JEichelberger^ Sec, 



LAWS 

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 

COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT 

OF THE 

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. 



ROGER B. TANEY, 

Provost of the University. 



COLIiEGE FACULTY. 



Rev. CHARLES WILLIAMS, D.D. Puesident, 

Professor of Ancient Languages. 

JOHN P. KENNEDY, Vice President, 
Professor of History. 

Hon. CHARLES W. HANSON, 

Professor of Political Economy. 

WILLIAM HOWARD, M.D. 

Professor of JSTatural Philosophy . 

JOSHUA L COHEN, M.D. 

Professor of Mineralogy and Geology. 

GEORGE FRICK,M.D. 

Professor of J^atural History. 

PETER H. CRUSE, 

Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. 

GEORGE H. CALVERT, Jr. 

Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. 

WILLIAM FISHER, M.D, 

Professor of Botany. 

EDWARD HINCKLEY, Treasurer, 
Professor of Mathematics. 

JULIUS T. DUCATEL, Secretary, 
Professor of Chemistry applied to the Arts. 

TUTORS. 

Tutor in Mathematics. 



} Classical Tutors. 

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LAWS, &c, 



ARTICLE I. 
Of the Classes and .Admission into College. 

1. The Students for degrees shall be divided into four classes, 
each class to continue one year, — those of the first year shall be 
denominated Freshmen; those of the second year. Sophomores; 
those of the third year. Juniors; those of the fourth year, 
Seniors. 

2. A candidate for admission into the Freshmen Class, shall 
undergo an examination by the Faculty, in Caesar'^s Commenta- 
ries, Ovid, Sallust, and the iEneid of Virgil; the Greek Testa- 
ment, Lucian's Dialogues, Anacreon, and the four first books of 
Xenophon's Cyropedia, or the Anabasis; Mair's Introduction, and 
Neilson's Greek Exercises; Adams's Latin and Valpy's Greek 
Grammar, including Greek and Latin Prosody; and so much of hea- 
then Mythology, Adams's Roman and Potter's Grecian Antiquities, 
as are absolutely necessary for elucidating and understanding the 
above preparatory course. In addition, he must be well versed 
in English Grammar, Ancient and Modern Geography, the funda- 
mental rules of Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; also 
the doctrine of Roots and Powers, Arithmetical and Geometrical 
Progression. 

3. A candidate for an advanced standing, in addition to the 
preparatory studies, is examined in the various branches to which 
the class he proposes to enter have attended. 

4. No one can be admitted to the Freshmen Class until he 
has completed his fourteenth year, nor to an advanced standing, 
without a proportional increase of age; and no student shall be 
admitted to a more advanced standing than the commencement 
of the Juniors, or third year, unless he shall come from some 
other College or University, when he may be allowed to enter 
the Senior, or fourth year, under the provision contained in the 
3rd section of this Article, and upon the payment of fifty dollars. 



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6. Every candidate for entrance into this College shall, on his 
admission, enter his name, age and residence, and the name and 
residence of his parent or guardian, in a book to be kept by the 
Faculty, called the Matriculation Book. He shall also sub- 
scribe the following engagement, viz. 

"I solemnly promise and engage to observe all the laws and 
regulations of this College, to pursue with diligence the studies 
assigned to me, and to avoid all indecent and disorderly language 
and behaviour, all disrespectful conduct to the Faculty or to any 
member thereof, and all combinations to resist their authority; 
as witness my hand ." 

6. Students who do not intend to offer themselves for the 
Honors of the University will be permitted to enter any of the 
classes, with the privilege of attending such parts of the recita- 
tions of the class they enter as may suit their views and inclina- 
tions, and also attend the Lectures of the different Professors. 
Such students, however, will be subject to the same fees for in- 
struction as the other students. 

7. The stated time of examination for admission into College, 
is the two days previous to the commencement, viz. the two 
days previous to the third Wednesday in July: but candidates 
may be examined, in any other part of the Collegiate terms. 

ARTICLE n. 
Of the Government and Discipline of the College^ 

1 . To the Professors who constitute the '^Faculty of ^^rts^"^ 
as a body, shall be committed the immediate regulation and go- 
vernment of the Collegiate department, subject to the rules and 
statutes and the control of the Board of Trustees. 

2. The punishments to be inflicted shall be exclusively directed 
to a sense of duty, and the principles of honour and shame, and 
shall consist of private admonition by a Professor, — admonition in 
the presence of the Faculty — admonition in the presence of the 
Faculty and of the class of the offender; public admonition and 
reproof in the presence of all the students of the College — re- 
moval to a lower class — suspension for a limited time from Col- 
lege — dismission — expulsion. 



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3. Negligence or contumacy shall be punished by admonition — 
removal to a lower class, or dismission: immorality, by admoni- 
tion, suspension or expulsion, according to the nature or degree 
of the offence. But no punishment except private admonition 
shall be inflicted, unless ordered by a resolution of a majority of 
the Faculty; nor shall the punishment of expulsion be inflicted 
unless it be first sanctioned by a vote of the Trustees. In case 
of dismission the offender may be re-admitted by a vote of the 
Faculty or of the Trustees, but the effect of expulsion shall be 
an utter disqualification of the individual for re-admission into 
this institution, or for receiving any of its honors. 

4. Students who damage the buildings, fixtures or furniture, 
of this institution, shall be subject to punishment by the Faculty, 
and the damage shall be repaired at the expense of the indivi- 
dual doing it. 

ARTICLE III. 
Of Study. 

1. Every student shall diligently apply himself to such studies 
as shall be prescribed to him by the Professors, and shall be care- 
ful not to be absent from any recitation or Lecture of his class. 

2. Every Professor shall appoint the time and place for the re- 
citations or the Lecture of his class, and it is enjoined on every 
student to be punctual in the hour of his attendance. 

3. When a student is absent from recitation or Lecture, with- 
out the express permission -of the Professor, he shall be called to 
an account for it in the presence of his class; and if he have not 
a sufficient excuse to justify the absence, he shall be reprimanded 
by the Professor according to the nature of the offence; and if 
such absences become frequent with a student he shall be re- 
ported to the Faculty, and by their decision, be subjected to such 
punishment as may be deemed necessary. 

4. The students of each year will be engaged daily not less 
than eight hours. They attend three recitations in the morning, 
and one in the afternoon, of not less than one hour each for every 
class. Besides the recitations, they will attend the lectures of 
Professors as laid down in aiticle 5th, section 3d. The hours 



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and plan of recitation shall be regulated by the Faculty. On 
Saturday there shall be no recitation in the afternoon. 

ARTICLE IV. 
Of Examinations^ Commencements and Degrees. 

1. Previous to the Summer vacation, there shall be a general 
examination by the Faculty of all the classes in the College, on 
the studies of that year. These examinations shall be public? 
so far as to admit not only the Trustees of the University, parents 
and guardians, but all gentlemen of liberal education who may 
choose to be present, and such other persons as the Faculty or 
Trustees of the University may invite. 

2. No student who shall at the concluding examination of any 
year, be found decidedly deficient in the studies of his class, 
shall on any account be permitted to proceed to the studies of 
the future year; provided, however, that any student desirous of 
regaining his standing by private diligence, shall have the privi- 
lege at any time to demand an examination, which proving satis- 
factory, shall restore him to his class. 

3. The examination for degrees shall be on all the studies of 
the College course, with the exception of such parts only as are 
provided for in article 5th, section 4th. 

4. There shall be an annual commencement to be held on the 
third Wednesday in July, when such candidates as may be found 
properly qualified, shall have the usual degrees conferred. 

5. A Bachelor of Arts must be of three years standing, before 
he can be eligible for the degree of Master of Arts. 

ARTICLE V. 
Of the College Course. 

] . The whole course of instruction occupies four years. In 
each year there are three terms. The /?rs/, with which the aca- 
demical year commences, beginning on the second Monday of 
September, and ending on the 24th of December. The second^ 
beginning on the second of January, and ending on the Wednes- 
day before Easter day; and the third^ commencing on the first 
Wednesday after Easter day, and ending on the third Wednes- 
day of July. 



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2. The following scheme gives a view of the authors recited 
in each term, viz: — 

Freshmen Class. 
' Cicero's Select Orations, begun. 
Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil. 



Herodotus; S 

Geometry, Legendre; 7 ^ 
Algebra, Lacroix; S 
. Blair's Lectures. 

Cicero's Select Orations, finished. 
Horace's Odes. 



JJ^-^f; ? continued. 
Herodotus; 3 



Geometry, Lesendre; ? .• i 
., - •'j ^ ' ^ contmued. 

Algebra, Lacroix; 3 

^ Irving on Composition. 
Horace's Satires, Epistles, and Arte Poetica. 
Cicero's de Officiis. 

Homer, to the Eighth Book; 7 finished. 
Herodotus, to the Fourth Book; S 
Geometry, Legendre;>g^.^j^^^^ 
Algebra, Lacroix; 3 
Hedge's Logic. 

Sophomore, or Second Year. 
' Livy, begun. 
Catullus. 
J . Demosthenes, Select Orations. 

The Hecuba and Orestes of Euripides. 
Plain and Spherical Trigonometry. 
. Moral Philosophy, begun. 

Livy, to the fifth book, finished. 
TibuUus and Propertius. 
Theophrastus. 

The Phoenissae and Medea of Euripides. 
Application of Algebra to Geometry. 
^ Moral Philosophy, continued. 



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Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute. 

Terence 
J Xenophon's Agesilaus. 

The Alcestis and Andromache of Euripides. 

Button's Conic Sections. 

Moral Philosophy, finished. 

Junior, or Third Year. 

Cicero de Oratore, begun. 

Lucan's Pharsalia. 

Xenophon's Memorabilia. 

Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. 

Analytic Geometry; Topography, or a Treatise on the appli- 
cation of Trigonometry to Orthographic and Stereographic 
Projection, dialing, mensuration of heights and distances, 
navigation, nautical astronomy, surveying and leveling, 
with logarithmic and other tables by Professor Farrar, be- 
gun. 

r Cicero de Oratore, finished, 
j Juvenal. 
2 <J Thucydides, begun. 

The CEdipus Tyrannus and Antigone of Sophocles. 

Analytic Geometry, Stc. continued. 

Tacitus, de Moribus Germanorum and Vitje Agricolae. 

Perseus. 

Thucydides, finished. 

Pindari, Carmina. 

Analytic Geometry, &c. continued. 

Senior, or Fourth Year. 

Select Plays of Plautus. 

The Epistles of Pliny, or Cicero. 

Prometheus Vinctus of ^schylus. 

Longinus. 

Analytic Geometry, &c. finished. 

Latin and Greek Criticism. 

Diflferential and Integral Calculus, begun. 

The Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion. 



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r Differential and Integral Calculus, finished. 
„ J Jn this term the whole (-onrse is revised, preparatory to the 

1 examination that takes place, at the conclusion of the 

[ term. 
Tiie above course may be subject to occasional variation of 
authors, though the course will be substantially the same. 

3. In addition to the recitations in the books here specified, 
the classes will receive lectures and occasional instruction from 
the Professor of Languages, and the Tutors. The Sophomore 
class attends the lectures of the Professor of Moral Philosophy. 
The Sophomore and Junior classes attend the lectures of the 
Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The Junior class 
attends the lectures of the Professors of Chemistry, Botany and 
History. The Senior class attends the lectures of the Profes- 
sors of Natural Philosophy, History, Mineralogy and Geology, 
Natural History and Political Economy. 

4. Though an attendance on all the lectures delivered by the 
Professors is required of the students, yet it is to be understood 
that the examination on the lectures on Mineralogy and Ge- 
ology, Botany, and Natural History, are not essential to a degree. 

5. The classes in each year will be exercised in writing 
Greek and Latin translations; Greek, Latin and English compo- 
sitions, themes, and declamations. 

6. Classical Biography, Kennett and Adams's Roman Anti- 
quities, Potter's Grecian Antiquities and Heathen Mythology are 
works necessarily made use of throughout the whole course for 
the elucidating and correct understanding of the classes, though 
not inserted in the course as a distinct and separate study. 

ARTICLE VI. 
Of Vacations. 
\. There shall be a vacation of all the classes in the college, 
from the third Wednesday in July to the second Monday of Sep- 
tember. 

2. There shall be an intermission of the studies of the Col- 
lege from the 24th of December to the 2d of January; and 
from the Wednesday before Easter day, to the first Wednesday 
after Easter day. 
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ARTICLE VII. 
Of Expenses. 

1. The College bills are made out three times a year at the 
close of each term; and are presented to the students, who are 
required to present them to their parents or guardians. The 
annual charges are, 

For instruction including the lectures and all other ex- 
penses, ___--_-> ^100 

A bill for one third of this amount will be made out at the 
close of each term, and collected under the superintendence of 
the President of the Faculty. 

2. A student entering after the commencement of a term, 
shall be chargeable with the tuition fees for the whole term; and 
no deduction shall be made for absence for any part of a term. 

3. Gentlemen well qualified for teaching the French, Spa- 
nish and German languages will be engaged by the faculty to 
give instruction in these branches to those students who desire 
it, at the additional annual charge of $20 each. 

4. Books and stationary v/ill be furnished by the student at his 
own expense, or should they be provided by the college, they 
will be charged in the bill at the same price that they would be 
furnished at by the booksellers. 



^ The Trustees of the University, deeming it of essen- 
tial importance, have determined to establish an academical de- 
partment in connexion "svith the University, in which boys may 
be prepared, by a thorough course of preparatory English, 
Mathematical and Classical instruction for admission into the 
Collegiate department; and in which also boys not intended for 
college may receive a thorough Enghsh education. Able and 
well qualified teachers for each of the branches will be employ- 
ed, and the department will be under the control and supervision 
of the professor of ancient languages. 

As it is proposed that the collegiate department should go 
into operation on the 2d of January next, it is earnestly request- 
ed that such parents and guardians as may contemplate entering 
their sons or wards, will signify their intention as early as con- 
venient to any one of the Professors. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 



In the Faculty of Physick the lectures commence on the last 
Monday of October, and terminate on the 1st of March. The 
Professors of the several divisions of medical science are: 

NATHANIEL POTTER, M.D. 

Theory and Practice of Medicine. 
ELISHA DE BUTTS, M. D. 

Chemistry. 

SAMUEL BAKER, M.D. 

Materia Medica. 

RICHARD WILMOT HALL, M.D. 

Ohdetricks and Diseases of Women and Children. 

MAXWELL MCDOWELL, M.D. 

Institutes of Physick. 

NATHAN R. SMITH, M.D. 

Surgeiy 

BENJAMIN LINCOLN, M.D. 

Anatomy. 

Clinical lectures on the theory and practice of medicine and 
of surgery are given by the Professors in a well regulated and 
extensive Infirmary near the University, where students also wit- 
ness numerous and important surgical operations. The nurses 
of this institution are the "Sisters of Charity.''^ 

The Professor of Chemistry has lately returned from Europe 
with a large addition to the Chemical and Philosophical appara- 
tus, which may now be held as equal to that of any institution 
in Europe or America. 

The Anatomical Museum is the most valuable at present in 
the United States. The Mineral ogical Cabinet is large and well 
arranged. 

The Medical Halls of the institution are calculated to receive 
1,000 persons with convenience. The apartments for practical 
anatomy are convenient, and the most ample advantages are here 
offered to the student in this pursuit. 

The commencements for conferring degrees in medicine are 
held as soon as may be after the lectures of the session have ter- 
minated. 



FACULTY OF LAW. 

DAVID HOFFMAN, L.L.D. PROFESSOR OF LAW. 



In the year 18:23 public lectures on law were commenced by 
the professor, and in 1824 there was annexed to this department 
an establishment called '''•The Maryland Law Instituted Here 
lectures have been delivered daily during two sessions of the 
year, since 1824. The first session commencing on the first 
Tuesday in October, and the second on the first Tuesday in March. 
The design is to lecture on every branch of jurisprudence, viz. 

NATURAL AND POLITICAL LAW. 

THE C03IM0N AND STATUTE LAW OF ENGLAND. 

AMERICAN LAW, (State, National and Constitutional, as far 
as the same vary from British Law.) 

ADMIRALTY AND MARITLME LAW. 

ROMAN OR CIVIL LAW. 

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

PROFESSIONAL DEPORTMENT. 

These lectures are designed to embrace an extensive course 
to occupy ten months in each year, daily, during three years. 
The minute learning of the entire science, together with the 
strictest attention to the philosophy and elements of the law are 
aimed at. Students can commence in any part of the course, 
and with advantage, and for any period not short of three months. 
In addition to the lectures, students are furnished with a course 
of methodical study^ adapted not only to their progress at the 
time of matriculation^ but as respects their individual vieios in 
regard to the place in lohich they design to practise their pro- 
fession. There are also occasional familiar or colloquial exam- 
inations. Practice is united to theory by a strict attention to 
precedents^ and cdl the formulae of legal procedure. Oral and 
written discussions of designated legal points take place in a 
Moot Court organized at the election of the students. The In- 
stitute is furnished with one of the most extensive and valuable 
libraries in the country^ and with all other accommodations ne- 
cessary to tranquil and uninterrupted study. 



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The degree of Bachelor of Law is conferred after three years' 
study in the Institute, and a successful examination by three gen- 
tlemen of legal science appointed for that purpose; — or after 
three years' study elsewhere, and one year's attendance at the In- 
stitute, followed by the like examination. 

The expenses of the establishment being very considerable, 
forbid the hope of accomplishing the delivery of the entire course 
until the permanent class is much enlarged beyond its present 
or former number. But the lectures which are now delivering, 
and which are gradually added to, together with the other ad- 
vantages of the Law Institute, render this establishment perhaps 
superior to any other similar institution in this country, or else- 
where. The library is daily increasing, and all other facilities 
will increase as the class shall from time to time increase in 
number. 

TERMS. 

1. Law Institute. — -This comprehends office accommodations, 
use of an extensive Law and Miscellaneous Library, direction of 
studies, private examinations, occasional private readings, and 
publick lectures, which commence on the first Monday in Octo- 
ber of every year, and will be delivered five times a week for at 
least four months, but to be annually increased until the entire 
course is completed. Fee (always to remain the same) per 
annum^ ------ $100 

2. Laiu Listitute. — For those who enter during the pe- 
riod of public lecturing. Fee (changes every year) now, 

for the four months, - - - - - 50 

3. Public Lectures alone, for Law students. Fee 
(changes annually) now - - - - 30 

4. Same. — For Professional Gentlemen and others (now) 15 

5. Moot Court. — Fee, unchangeable, - - 20 

6. Moot Court and Lectures. — Fee (now) - 40 
The student can under no circumstance be charged more than 

$120, including the Moot Court, which, however, is optional 
with the student. 



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